Michael Mazzola, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU), has been named the third director of the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC); he will join the University in late June, according to Lee College of Engineering officials.
Mazzola, who holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Old Dominion University, also is the Jack Hatcher Endowed Chair for Entrepreneurship at MSU’s Bagley College of Engineering. In addition, he has served two years as the chief technology officer of SemiSouth Laboratories, a company he co-founded.
At the MSU Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mazzola is the associate director for advanced vehicle systems, where he leads research in high-voltage engineering, power systems modeling and simulation, the application of silicon carbide semiconductor devices in power electronics and the control of hybrid electric vehicle power trains. A professional engineer, he has published more than 100 papers and has been awarded 14 patents.